For is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOR in dictionary:

PREPOSITION:
• directed or sent to
• in support of or in favour of (a person or policy)
• affecting, with regard to, or in respect of
• on behalf of or to the benefit of
• employed by
• having (the thing mentioned) as a purpose or function
• having (the thing mentioned) as a reason or cause
• having (the place mentioned) as a destination
• representing (the thing mentioned)
• in place of or in exchange for
• charged as (a price)
• in relation to the expected norm of
• indicating the length of (a period of time)
• indicating the extent of (a distance)
• indicating an occasion in a series
• In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
• Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
• Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
• Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
• Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
• Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
• Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
• Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
• Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
• Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
• indicating benefit, receipt, timespan, distance, etc
NOUN:
• One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.
CONJUNCTION:
• because; since
• Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
• Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• indicating a person intended to benefit from or receive something, span of time or distance, person or thing represented by someone, etc

Words related to FOR

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Words that contain FOR

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How to use FOR in a sentence

• It was necessary, therefore, for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it was his object to throw over their imaginations.
• The king had, in fact, during the first eight years of his rule been mainly occupied in building up his empire, and providing for its defence against external dangers.
• Now, before I quit the Peninsula, a single word more to the honourable member for Westminster and his constituents.
• Wealth came to the Brahman and he grew richer and richer, and at last the queen of the land sent for him.
• He looked straight down at her, and for an appreciable period of time the two pairs of eyes continued to dwell upon each other.
• There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds.
• Rules for admission to the bar in the several states and territories of the United States in force March 1, 1935.
• Then he straightened slowly and said something reassuring to Keok, and faced the window again with the gun which she had loaded for him.
• But I soon discovered she was a Portuguese ship, as I thought bound to the coast of Guinea for Negroes.
• Difficulties, for which no real satisfaction is attainable, compel us to faith.
• Better a thousand times have its lessons of life and love graven on the heart of the child, than to have its fine engravings as a parlor ornament for strangers.
• For these children are usually dependent on their elders.
• The purport of the letter was to dissuade their accepting the British proposals, and to assure them that their friends in France would endeavor to do something for them.
• For this reason, through the medium of the Blessed Virgin, Christ is said to be of the seed of David, according to the flesh, by way of origin.
• In 1869 it was sown for hay, and in 1870 was broken up and sown to oats, and the next spring planted with potatoes.
• And herewith my last argument in favour of views for which I once would have laid down my life, seemed to be spent.
• But they advanced, firing as they rushed on, not in close formation, for that offered too good a target, but separated.
• I ran below for the balsam, which I found without difficulty.
• And pretty soon he woke up once more, for he heard another noise.
• Scholars sometimes think that it is not a great offense for them to violate the rules of their school, neglect their books, or be unkind even to some of their school-associates.
• Neither knew him for Gareth of the Orkneys, but both believed him to be a youth of good promise who, for his own reasons, would pass in disguise for a season.
• For the space of one minute the old enchantment shone upon him with a reflected radiance.

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